Motorcycle driver dies in crash

Update: Medical personnel confirmed a man involved in a motorcycle accident in Savannah Thursday morning was pronounced dead at the Cayman Islands Hospital.

Initial story: A one-vehicle crash critically injured a George Town man just after dawn Thursday and left morning rush hour traffic through Savannah at a standstill for hours.

According to witnesses at the scene, a motorcycle driver was overtaking two vehicles westbound on the shoulder of Shamrock Road just past Savannah Primary School around 6:30 a.m. when his vehicle clipped a speed limit sign, rolled and slid into the opposite lanes.

The motorcyclist suffered serious head injuries and was “unresponsive” when ambulance crews took him away, according to police. An update on his condition was not immediately provided.

It was not believed any other vehicles were involved in the wreck.

Royal Cayman Islands Police officers closed both lanes of Shamrock Road at the crash scene and were diverting traffic back onto Hirst Road and then to the East-West Arterial.

By 7 a.m. hundreds of cars were stopped at the Countryside Shopping Centre junction, some having travelled down Shamrock to the accident scene only to be turned around by police who were blocking several sections of the road.

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